General Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Prologue VII
3. Contents XV
4. Introduction: Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry 1
5. Part I: Roman Elegy
6. Propertius and the Unstructured Self 13
7. Love and Death in Propertius 1.10, 1.13 and 2.15: Poetic and Polemical Games with Lucretius, Gallus and Virgil 37
8. From Grave to Rave: Reading ‘Reality’ in Propertius 4.7 and 4.8 51
9. Place and Meaning in Tibullus, Lygdamus, Sulpicia 69
10. Sulpicia and the Speech of Men 85
11. Ovid’s Literary Entrance: Propertian and Horatian Traces? 111
12. Part II: Augustan and Neronian Epic
13. Till Death do us Part … or Join: Love beyond Death in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 125
14. Death and Life in Lucan 137
15. Part III: Historiography-Lyric Poetry, Erotic Epistolography and Epigram
16. The Music of Time: Sallust’s Sempronia (Cat. 25) and Horace’s Lyce (Odes 4.13) 151
17. Against Aesthetic Distance: Ovid, Proust, and the Hedonic Impulse 167
18. Epicurean Philosophical Perspectives in (and on) [Vergil] Catalepton 5 189
19. Part IV: Roman Drama and Novel
20. Aphrodisia and the Poenulus of Plautus: The Case of Agorastocles 207
21. Stoic Moral Perfectionism and the Queer Art of Failure: Toward a Theory of Senecan Tragedy 221
22. Resurrection Woman: Love, Death and (After)Life in Petronius’s Widow of Ephesus 237
23. Part V: Reception
24. Love and Death in Renaissance Latin Bucolic: The Chronis and its Origins (Biblioteca Nacional de México Ms. 1631) 251
25. The Pope as Arsonist and Christian Salvation: Peter Causton’s Londini Conflagratio: Carmen 275
26. Many Un/happy Returns from Eurydice 295
27. Publications by Theodore D. Papanghelis 313
28. Contributors 317
29. General Index 321
30. Index Locorum 325